Tag: Part-Time Employment

It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.

Back in 2018, with an eye to writing a novel about low-wage work in America, I got a job at a big-box store near the Catskills in New York, where I live. I was on the team that unloaded the truck of new merchandise each morning at 4 a.m. We were supposed to empty the […]

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China’s Youth Unemployment Rate Is Back, and Better

After suspending the public release of youth unemployment rates last year, China started distributing the information again on Wednesday, using a different measurement criteria that lowered the figure significantly. China’s National Bureau of Statistics stopped announcing the jobless rate among 16- to 24-year-olds after the figure climbed for six consecutive months to 21.3 percent in […]

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